Show jt T IS n lood ehlig to ob serve christmas day tue the mere marking or of toraei and seasons men agree to stop work and make merry together is 1 a who and wholesome custom it belt helps one to reel feel hie the supremacy of the columbu life over the individual and it ro ro minds a man to let set hia his owa own little natch atch now and then by the great clock of hut but there Is I 1 a better thing than the lie ob of christmas Chr latna day and that li Is keeping are you willing to forget blat you hare have dune done for other people aud to remember what hat other people bar bare done for you to ignore what the world owes you and to think what you owe oae the world to put joir rights ID in the bael ground and s air duties in the middle distance and your chances to ao a little cure than your duty in the foreground to see that your fellow caco men are just as real ar you ore are are you willing to own that probably the only good reason for your existence Is not what hat you ure tire going ho 16 V santa offer offers encouragement to all to keep christmas to get out of ufa lifo but what you are going to give to life to close your book of complaints against the maa man altmont of the universe and look around you for a where you cau sow a few seeds of happiness are you willing to do these things lings ti even for a day then you can cam keep christmas are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children to re remember tho weakness akness re and loneliness of people wh i are growing old to stop asking how much your friends love you and ask yourself youre elf whether hether you love them enough are you willing to try to understand what choie who live in the same bouse house with alth you really want without waiting for them to tell you to trim win lamp so that it will give more light and les lew smoke and to carry it in front so that your will fall behind you to nake a grayy grove for your ugly thoughts though ta and a garden for your kindly feelings with the gate open are you willing to do these things even for a day then theo you can keep christmas are you willing to believe that love Is to the strongest thing la to the world stronger than hate stronger tro neer than evil a ronger than de athana and thai that the blessed life which becan began at bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago go Is the linage and brightness ot of eternal love then you can keep christmas and if you can keep it for a day why not always nut you can never keep it alone I 1 Bliss missouri ourt farmer |